Arc By James Fowler Scattered clapboard stores with porches at first, something to justify a name: Hoxie, Mountain Home, Calico Rock, Lead Hill. Maybe tracks to align beside, a nearby stream. Intentions are firmed with brick, blocks squared off, to set flivvers lurching into town over washboard roads for big 20¢ meals, the latest in notions. Eventually stray pigs … [Read more...] about Poets and Poetry: Issue 8
Archives for January 2019
By Steve Yates When my sisters and I knew Mary and Roma best, in the 1970s and 1980s, divorce and contumely raged among our aunts and uncles, our neighbors, and the parents of our peers. Our own parents practiced spectacular, frightening conflicts. Nothing it seemed was too small to spark outrageous clashes, even though my mother and father lived with far more material … [Read more...] about Mary and Roma
Editor’s Note When congratulated on his appointment to replace Benjamin Franklin as minister to France, Thomas Jefferson remarked, “No one can replace him, sir; I am only his successor.” I must express much the same sentiment upon following Craig Albin as editor of Elder Mountain. No one can replace Dr. Albin, but I’m delighted to step in as guest editor. We generally … [Read more...] about Editor’s Note and Submission Guidelines
James Fork of the White: Transformation of an Ozark River. By Leland and Crystal Payton. (Lens & Pens Press, 2017, Pp. 352) Reviewed by Steve Wiegenstein Readers of books on Ozarks culture and geography are probably familiar with Leland and Crystal Payton, whose earlier works, Damming the Osage, Mystery of the Irish Wilderness, The Beautiful and Enduring Ozarks, … [Read more...] about Book Review: James Fork of the White: Transformation of an Ozark River by Leland and Crystal Payton
Book Notes A History of the Ozarks, Volume 1, The Old Ozarks. By Brooks Blevins. (University of Illinois Press, 2018, Pp. 297) In his preface to Hill Folks, his history of the Arkansas Ozarks (2002), Brooks Blevins noted that “the Ozark region has largely been denied a scholarly, historical record” (xi). Blevins now delivers the first volume of a trilogy that will … [Read more...] about Book Review: Book Notes